$.5m bail for prisons officer
A PRISONs officer with 27 years service was yesterday granted bail in the sum of $500,000 to be approved by a Clerk of the Peace after he appeared before a Port of Spain magistrate. Earl Peter Thomas, 50, a Prisons Officer II of Eighth Street, Barataria, appeared before Senior Magistrate Lucina Cardenas-Ragoonanan in the Fourth ( Court, charged with having in his possession 421.9 grammes of marijuana for the purpose of trafficking. Ref. Source 3